Banyoro

Africahorticulturalists
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The Banyoro live largely in western Uganda, east of Lake Mobutu. Bunyoro is one of the administrative regions that make up Uganda. Runyoro, the language of the Banyoro, belongs to the Central Bantu division of the Bantu language family. The Banyoro had a powerful kingdom for many centuries; its influence waned in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries under pressure from other kingdoms. All Ugandan kingdoms were abolished after Ugandan independence from British rule, but they were restored in 1993. The Banyoro are largely sedentary agriculturalists.

Identifier
Region
  • Africa
Subregion
  • Eastern Africa
Subsistence Type
  • horticulturalists
Samples
Countries
  • Uganda
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